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Northwich, with twenty arches, each sixty feet span, and about sixty feet high. It is built over the river Weaver, and is a very fine specimen of masonry and bridge building. It is one of Stephenson's finest designs. The stone is of the red sandstone...

A Few General Observations on the Principal Railways Executed, in Progress ... - Page 22
1838 - 64 pages
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The History of the London & North Western Railway

Wilfred L. Steel - Railroads - 1914 - 522 pages

...important work upon this line is a viaduct near Northwich with 2o arches, each 60 feet span, and about 60 feet high. It is built over the River Weaver, and...very slight. There are two small tunnels, each about 200 yards long, but in travelling at railway speed they can scarcely be recognised as tunnels. The...

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